Re-Launching the Caribbean’s New World Journal
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By: Amílcar Sanatan
Thousands converged on Port-of-Spain to protest, Trinidad and Tobago, 1970. | Photo: Embau Moheni / NJAC
The New World Quarterly and the intellectual developments that followed the journal left an indelible mark on Caribbean intellectual thought.
The Caribbean and the developing world were places of high intellectual and political excitement by the late 1950s. Political leadership in the Caribbean was occupied by the likes of Norman Manley, Eric Williams, Cheddi Jagan and others.
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